Notes and Editorial Reviews

In the early 1980s legendary director Götz Friedrich created his own contemporary version of Jacques Ofenbach’s operetta at the Deutsche Oper Berlin – in German, filled with allusions to the contemporary cultural scene and society in general. Starring a large cast of renowned artists – singers and actors – Orpheus’ odyssey to the Olympic Gods and to the Underworld, in order to save his wife, receives a new face – away from Paris in the 19th century and to bourgeois West-Berlin. The performance stars Julia Migenes Johnson, Donald Grobe, Astrid Varnay and George Shirley, to name but a few. Jesús López Cobos has the musical direction in this production. With this production Arthaus Musik continues its successful series forRead more the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Read less